Railway road-bed.



J. OGORMAN.

RAILWAY ROAD BED.

APPLICATION FILED APR.17, 1912.

Patented Oct. 22, 1912.

M M w w May/v 0 60/7M4/v WITNESSES Ea srarns Parana onnrcn vJOHN 'OGORMAN, OF SAN LUIS OBIsPO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 0F FORTY-FIVE ONE- HUNDREDTHS T0 ARTHUR L. DUTTON, OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA.

RAILWAY ROAD-BED.

Patented Get. 22, rate.

Application filed April 17, 1912. Serial No. 691,357.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN-OGORMAN, a

I have devised an improved construction.

of block and provided the same with metallic chairs adapted to receive and support rails, and have also connected the opposite blocks by means of adjustable metallic ties.

The details of construction, arrangement,

and combinations of parts are as hereinafter and construction and connected by an adjustable tie, rails and some other portions being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of a rail block with a rail, rail chair, and portion of a tie shown in section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a cement or concrete block. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the rail chair. Fig. 5 is a side view showing rails laid and supported upon a cement block constructed in accordance with my invention.

The concrete or cement blocks 1 are arranged in pairs, directly opposite each other, as in Fig. 1. The blocks have an oblong, rectangular base 2 and a truncated, pyramidal top portion or body 3. The base 2 is providedwith angular, lengthwise ribs 4 which assist in holding them fixed in the ground. The blocks have a deep length-wise slot or groove 5 which receives metallic chairs and rails 7 whose bases rest on wooden blocks 8.

As shown, best in Fig. 4, the chairs have a horizontal base portion 9, a short angular arm 10 projecting upward and inward, and a longer angular arm 11 projecting upwardly and outwardly and then downwardly at the extremity 12. The chair thus formed and constructed is laid in the groove or slot 5 of the block, the latter being provided with recesses 13 into which the chair is laid. The short angular arm 10 extends up over the base flange of the rail and abuts the web the parts 18 of the alined screw-rods.

thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, while the other angular arm 11 extends away from the opposite base flange and over the adjacent top portion of the block 1. Thereis thus left .a space between the upper portions of the two arms 10 and 11 which is sufficient to allow the introduction and removal of therail and the elastic block 8 upon which it is placed.

A fish-plate 14 is applied to the web of the rail on the side opposite the shorter chair arm 10, and a screw rod 15 abuts it, the same passing through threaded holes 16 in the oppositely inclined portions of the chair arm 11. The outer portion of the screw-rod 15 is squared at 17 to permit theapplication of a wrench, for rotating it and thereby pressing the fish plate 14 tightly-against the rail web, as shown. The outer extremity 18 of the screw-rod is threaded and opposite rods are connected by a sleeve 19 whose ends are internally threaded to adapt them to receive The sleeve 19 may be constructed with a squared or polygonal portion to adapt it for application of an ordinary wrench, or a pipe wrench may be applied for rotating it, as preferred. It is apparent that by adjustment of the rods themselves and the adjustment of the sleeve 19, the blocks and chairs attached thereto may be adjusted as required by the gage of the road.

It will be seen that the shorter angular arm 10 of the metallic chair abuts one side of the groove or slot-and is thus firmly supported by the block itself, while the other longer angular arm 6 of the chair abuts the opposite wall of the slot and overlies the top of the adjacent portion of the block in which position it.is held firmly by the screw-rod passing through it and a portion of the block.

My invention is applicable to street, rural electric, and steam railways, and when used for a'street railway it will, of course, be duly embedded in the pavement. The block may be made in various lengths and in fact the blocks may be laid end to end or abutting.

What I claim is:

1. An improved railwayroadbed formed of concrete blocks having a lengthwise top groove, metallic rail-chairs laid in said grooves crosswise, the same being provided with a rail seat and o osite angular arms extending upward and both inclined in the same direction, and'one of them adapted to overlie the base and abut the web of a rail,

substantially as described.

2. The combination with concrete blocks having lengthwise grooves and metallic chairs laid crosswise thereon, of metallic ties connecting such blocks and chairs and adapted for-lengthwise adjustment, substantially as described. I

3. The combination with concrete blocks having a lengthwise groove and metallic chairs laid crosswise on the latter,-of metallic ties connecting the blocks and chairs, the terminal portions thereof being screwthreaded and passing through the inner arm of the chairs and adapted to abut the we of a rail, substantially as described.

4. The combination with the blocks having a lengthwise groove and metallic chairs laid crosswise thereon, of metallic ties connecting such blocks and chairs, the same comprising two screw-threaded rods and a connecting internally threaded, sleeve, the rods passing through threaded openings in the chairs, and abutting a fish plate which intervenes the rod and the rail, substantially ed to support a rail on the outer side, substantially as described.

- JOHN OGORMAN.

, Witnesses:

I Louis LARNY,

R. W. PUTNAM. 

